[chris]

Joseph Rakes swung a flagpole flying the US flag at Ted Landsmark during an anti-busing protest at City Hall Plaza in Boston on April 5, 1976. Landsmark, a 29-year-old Black lawyer and civil-rights activist, was heading to a meeting about minority contractors and was not part of the protest against court-ordered school desegregation. Rakes missed him. Landsmark had already been struck from behind, breaking his nose and knocking off his glasses. Anti-busing activist Jim Kelly helped Landsmark to his feet and later shielded him.

Photographer Stanley Forman captured the confrontation in "The Soiling of Old Glory," which won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His sequence also showed protesters moving across the plaza and the scuffles surrounding the attack. Rakes was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon. He received a two-year jail sentence that was suspended and two years of probation.

[chris]

Here are some other pictures of the event as well.

[spudigitti]

Hope he learned something in those 3 years and kept safe from the bulls especially with that photograph on the news...

[luton loyal]

[FunkPumpkin]

If that didn't take place in occupied America, the perp should've been concerned about catching a few high-velocity projectiles, being it was considered AWDW and all. :|

Thank Heysoos Creestos for primers, powder and ball.

[SargeistExisting]

If the roles were reversed with the victim white and the attacker black, it wouldn't have won a damn thing and would have been buried. Black on White crime doesn't exist in America according to the media. Racially motivated crimes happen everyday against whites, but it is never reported.